Tag: Knowledge

The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-Francois Lyotard – Book Review

Post author By elenchusphilosophy
Post date 20 April 2020
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Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the staple philosophers of postmodern thinking. Though he is often neglected as a philosopher in recent days, he still has a lot of influence to modern thinking by giving his account on knowledge which highly influenced Postmodernism. In this book he presents the postmodern stance on knowledge. It is where […]

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21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari – Book Review

Post author By elenchusphilosophy
Post date 1 April 2020
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I finally got to read this book after it stood on my to read shelf for ages and now I regret not reading this sooner, because then I would have had more time thinking about the many problems which Harari addresses in this book. There are 21 ‘lessons’ in this book, but mostly it’s about […]

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